LESSON 2: ASSUMPTIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF ART Flashcards
Literature has provided key works of art. Among the most popular ones being taught in school are the two Greek epics, what are those?
the Iliad and the Odyssey
The Sanskrit pieces that are also staples in this field.
Mahabharata and Ramayana
is not a factor in determining art.
Age
never fails to teach high school students the beauty of love, one that is universal and pure.
Florante at Laura
enjoyment in the arts belongs to a higher good, one that lies at the opposite end of base pleasures.
John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism
One important characteristic of art is that
Art is not nature
Art is man’s way of interpreting.
nature
Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the?
“actual doing of something”
An important aspect of experiencing art is?
its being highly personal, individual, and subjective.
shows that it represents different worldviews, religious beliefs, political ideas, social values, kinship structures, economic relations, and historical memory.
Cross-cultural studies of art
The functions of art normally fall into three categories. What are those?
These are personal, social or physical functions.
is art that performs a physical function in the tea ceremony.
Japanese raku bowl
any of the crafts, and industrial design are all types of art that have physical functions.
Architecture
always carries a social function.
Political art
functions of art are often the most difficult to explain.
The personal functions of art
the things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the World of Forms. Human beings endeavor to reach the Forms all throughout this life, starting with formal education in school.
Plato’s metaphysics or view of reality
claimed that art is just an imitation of imitation.
Socrates
He wrote, the “Critique of Judgement,” he considered the judgment of beauty, the cornerstone of art, as something that can be universal despite its subjectivity.
Immanuel Kant
is fighting for the social dimension of art.
Tolstoy
wrote in the thirteenth century of the function of art as an aid to religious teaching
Thomas Aquinas
illustrates the genealogy of Christ, starting with the Jewish patriarch Jesse in red at the base of the tree.
The Tree of Jesse
The Tree of Jesse in what cathedral and country ?
Chartres Cathedral in France
is an example of personal commemoration. Erected in the seventeenth century on the banks of a river between a guest house and a small mosque,
Taj mahal
Taj Mahal was a tomb for?
the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan’s favorite wife
